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Print sales are hot, with the industry seeing its third straight year of sales growth in 2016. In fact, distribution networks require more sophistication than ever as booksellers strive to meet the immediate and highly specialized demands of their customer bases.

Click below for our Project Profile on Readerlink, the largest full-service distributor of hardcover, trade, and paperback books to nontrade channel booksellers in North America.

Identifying the Salt Lake City area as the consolidation of its Western U.S. distribution network, Readerlink tapped the JLL team to identify a hub facility. With nothing existing on the market, our Build to Suit Practice Group assembled a cross-functional team, from financing experts to project management pros, to assess the viability of a build-to-suit assuming a long-term lease and Readerlink’s credit.

Building a 500,000-square-foot distribution center in the middle of a brutal Salt Lake City winter is challenging enough. Making the entire process financially viable while shifting delivery and budget risk (including winter conditions) onto the developer and landlord was critical.… Read More

Building a distribution center in the middle of a brutal Salt Lake City winter is challenging enough. Making the entire process financially viable while shifting delivery and budget risk (including winter conditions) onto the developer and landlord is what JLL’s Build to Suit Practice Group does best.

The JLL Chicago team of John Musgjerd, Ben Erskine and Steven Spinell recently changed their name to clearly reflect what they do best: build-to-suits on behalf of their clients. After completing Zurich North America’s critically acclaimed Schaumburg headquarters, the team, along with partner Todd Schaefer, connected with book publisher and distributor Readerlink on an entirely different project—a new 500,000 square-foot industrial distribution center servicing the western U.S.… Read More

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